Malware probes find a China angle

Found on CNet News on Sunday, 29 March 2009
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China is coming under scrutiny as the possible source of malicious software and Internet attacks directed at foreign governments and other institutions.

Completed separately, both reports--"Tracking GhostNet," from the Munk Centre for International Studies in Toronto, and "The snooping dragon," from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory--address the Chinese government's efforts to monitor the activities of the Dalai Lama and the governing of Tibet.

Now if the Great Firewall of China would work both ways. The chinese government does not really care much about outgoing, truly malicious traffic (not just malicious because it's free information).